In the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West ...

IGN serves a global audience, so with Lovers Rock screening at the New York Film Festival, we are publishing our review from Siddhant Adlakha who watched the movie via a digital screener. Read more on ...

Black joy undoubtedly exists. The diaspora would never have survived all that has been thrust upon it without these moments of levity. However, throughout the history of cinema, studios and filmmakers ...

If you've seen any of Steve McQueen's work, then you already know that the British filmmaker has got a knack for tackling serious issues and telling powerful stories. But with Lovers Rock, McQueen has ...

This is a mini review of a movie that deserves a mountain of superlatives. This is a mini review of a movie that deserves a mountain of superlatives. Part of Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" series on ...

At the end of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock – a new film that both opens the New York Film Festival Thursday night and opens McQueen’s five part anthology coming to Amazon, Small Axe (a West Indian ...

BAFTA-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen's first Small Axe film aired on BBC One on Sunday Nov. 15 and it's safe to say it left viewers in their feelings. He has directed five new films exploring the ...

Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...

We’re approaching the time of year when critics are releasing their “best of” lists. My “Movies 101” partners and I will be doing the same sometime in the coming weeks. For now, though, I want to talk ...

With “Lovers Rock,” the wonderful opening-night movie at this year’s dramatically overhauled New York Film Festival, the director Steve McQueen sets aside the spectacles of cruelty that have so often ...